David Brierley was born in 1936 in Durban, South Africa. He has also lived in Canada, England, France and Greece. Travel is in his bones. After taking a degree at Oxford, he worked as a teacher at a French lycée and then in advertising in London, which is when the first of 13 novels were published. He lives in England with his wife Jill in a small town with a name that always raises a smile: Chipping Sodbury.
The third adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers.
Ex-spy Cody is hired to find a pilot who disappeared with his plane somewhere in North Africa. Her search pits her against Skorpion, a terrorist group plotting to establish radical Islamist caliphates across the Arab world, a discovery that forces her into a brutal, agonizing death-march for survival across Tunisia’s scorching, desert hell-scape.